It was horrible. But I was focused on the future and was willing to kill myself to make it happen. I did a lot of removals that way. I did a removal over Lake Winola that way once and every time I came down out of the tree had to wade up to my waist in the lake to bring the limb out.
I wouldn't...
I learned self roping when I was first in business and couldn't provide enough work to keep help around. I ropes down each piece, rapelled down, untied, went back up the tree and did it again. I DO NOT look back on those days fondly.
At 85' on 6" tulip poplar, is be a RAGING lunatic coming out of that tree like Peter Pan if a groundie rocked me. On bigger wood, I'd suck it up. On 6" poplar, someone would get their head cut off.
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